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{{Short description|British Whig politician}}
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| name = Charles Lushington
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| office = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)|Westminster]]
| term_start = 30 July 1847
| term_end = 9 July 1852
| predecessor = [[John Temple Leader]]<br />[[De Lacy Evans]]
| successor = [[Sir John Shelley, 7th Baronet|John Shelley]]<br />[[De Lacy Evans]]
| alongside = [[De Lacy Evans]]
| office2 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency)|Ashburton]]
| term_start2 = 5 January 1835
| term_end2 = 30 June 1841
| predecessor2 = [[William Stephen Poyntz]]
| successor2 = [[William Jardine (merchant)|William Jardine]]
| birth_date = 14 April 1785
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| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1866|09|23|1785|04|14}}
| death_place = [[Brighton]], [[Sussex]], [[England]]
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'''Charles Lushington''' (14 April 1785 – 23 September 1866)<ref name="leighrayment">{{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "W" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons3.htm |website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |access-date=24 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024215417/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons3.htm |archive-date=24 October 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=11 October 2018 }}</ref><ref name="leighrayment2">{{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "A" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Acommons3.htm |website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |access-date=24 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220042540/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Acommons3.htm |archive-date=20 December 2009 |url-status=usurped |date=22 September 2018 }}</ref> was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] politician, and servant for the [[East India Company]], and secretary to the [[Bengal Presidency]].<ref name="seaber">{{cite book|last1=Seaber|first1=Luke|editor1-last=Brant|editor1-first=Clare|editor2-last=Saunders|editor2-first=Max|title=Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature: Certainties in Degradation|date=2017|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|isbn=9783319509624|page=3|edition=eBook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8LfQDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 |via = [[Google Books]] |access-date=6 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="odnb">{{cite ODNB |title= Lushington, Stephen (1782–1873) |id = 17213 |url= http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-17213 |last= Waddams |first= S. M. |date = 2004 }}</ref>

Lushington was the younger brother of [[Stephen Lushington (judge)|Stephen Lushington]], a British judge and Whig [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for various constituencies between 1806 and 1841. In 1805, he married Sarah, daughter of General Joseph Gascoyne. After her death in 1839, he married Julia Jane née Lane, widow of Thomas Teed, in 1844.<ref name="odnb"/>

Lushington first became a Whig MP for [[Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency)|Ashburton]] at the [[1835 United Kingdom general election|1835 general election]], and held the seat until the [[1841 United Kingdom general election|1841 general election]], when he did not seek re-election. He returned, however, six years later, for [[Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)|Westminster]] at the [[1847 United Kingdom general election|1847 general election]] and held the seat until the [[1852 United Kingdom general election|next general election in 1852]], when he did not seek re-election.<ref name="craig1832">{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|pages=20, 30}}</ref> During his time in Parliament, Lushington was a reformer, favouring the use of a [[secret ballot]], triennial parliaments, and extension of the [[suffrage]]. He also opposed religious privileges, publishing three works on religious questions.<ref name="odnb"/>

Lushington died in [[Brighton]], [[Sussex]] in 1866.<ref name="odnb"/>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-charles-lushington| Mr Charles Lushington }}

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[[Category:UK MPs 1847–1852]]
[[Category:Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies]]
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[[Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Ashburton]]
[[Category:Younger sons of baronets]]

Charles Lushington (1785–1866) - Revision history

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